Stift
or Stefaan Van hyfte (°1983, Brussels, Schaarbeek)


Illustrator and visual artist coming from Belgium, Brussels.
Graduated at the Sint Lukas Artschool in Brussels, 2011 in Animation and illustration.
Stift loves the walking man in the city and the limelight of itbut belongs to the rough beauty as solitude of nature.
My work embody those tall tales as you might suspect.

Welcome and enjoy...

Contact me for requests at stift.illustrator@gmail.com or à la mobile +32473/585046...
sincerely yours...

Stef










Extract of my untitled graphic novel debut.

The storyline goes about a dysfunctional but renowned director that can't seem to finish a movie scene (see spread above) under the pressure of a chaotic shooting, actors that go into an emotional blaze and producer executives that keep the director in hostage to his duties.
We follow the Kafkaesque journey and escape route of the director with some memorable links to the history of world cinema. Bellville, Hitchcock, Spielberg, Kubrick... you can guess it. This project is still under development since my life as a devoted father, dayjob and neverending plotting the outcomes are shading a definite reachable deadline. I hope within 2024-25 to finnish this monster in the closet.  Follow all updates, snippets and hopefully adoption of this project by a publisher.













WILD YEARS SERIES

While working on my comic, I will publish my free work.  A vital exercise into the lyricism and magical imagery on how to make the other comic more fun, emotional and breathable for me. 






Episode 1: death of a salesman







Episode 1 (Bladk and White version)





                                
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FREE WORK & ASSIGNEMENTS

















    Drawing Days Gent, the work in progress inspired by a textline of Peter Verhelst ("A cow as flat as a carpet, with an udder as        a sitbag" ) (Nederkouter 24, Ibis Hotel Opera)







                                                                               Assignment for the online cultural forum  from Holland 'De Optimist' .